Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a flail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Acting like a flail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Acting like a flail.

Etymologies

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flail +‎ -y

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Examples

  • We're thirty-five days out from the San Diego International Comic Convention, aka "Geek Prom," aka "Seanan makes her first appearance in a public place as a professional author, rather than as a musician who occasionally writes things and says flaily stuff about a book that's coming out sometime in the far, misty future."

    seanan_mcguire: Seventy-five days and counting down. seanan_mcguire 2009

  • I was fairly resigned about it when it happened, but it's more serious than I like to let on- I have to wear all black at work, you see, and this was one of the very very few black tops I own with January-suitable long sleeves that don't have big bat flaily-ness.

    Privilege is a headache you don't know you don't have 2008

  • In less flaily news, I am starting to scare myself.

    sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2007

  • If you don't, it's no wonder you've gone a bit flaily-arm and hoppitamoppita.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2010

  • If you don't, it's no wonder you've gone a bit flaily-arm and hoppitamoppita.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter Anonymous 2010

  • If you don't, it's no wonder you've gone a bit flaily-arm and hoppitamoppita.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter Anonymous 2010

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